Progress on Several Fronts

 Pleased to report that things are moving ahead on the car repair and my physical repair. I've retired both the walker and the cane, and am getting around pretty well without the assist devices. I'm still regaining balance and strength, but less awkward than before if a bit slow. Even better, after nine months of rehab my physical therapy team has reduced my visits to every other week. I need to keep up the home exercise and hope their evaluation holds. Now to lose the twenty pounds I picked up with steroid meds and sedentary lifestyle while healing.

That means I've been able to increase quality time in the garage. Robert brought over the finished rear battery box and the battery cells. We designed it to hold the four extra cells, bringing the total to 48, balanced 24 front, 24 rear. Wired the set with Jack Rickard approved flexible bus bars and Nordlock washers, all from EVTV Motor Verks.

Added the sensor wiring for the 

Thunderstruck BMS, then tidied up the arrangement with some zip ties so none of the wiring is touching terminals or bus bars.

Built up the electronics mount board for the charger, Master Control Unit, solid state relay with heat sink, rear pack fuse, hall effect current sensor, 2/0 Anderson connector, and BMS Satellite. The black box behind the BMS contains all the extra length sensor wires, neatly coiled and out of harm's way.

What remains is to finish out the control unit and relay connections in the car and add the Anderson Connector's mate which will also function as the service disconnect. Finally, have the whole rear battery box assembly returned to Pro Automotive and lifted into place in the rear boot.

So this saga promises to come to a conclusion as both the eBugeye and yours truly are rehabilitated and return to normal, whatever that is ... more to come!